"Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?" ~ Stephen Arons

A Guide to Subversive Parenting

This is such an excellent series of articles that I couldn’t choose just one. Why people allow themselves to be so shamefully manipulated by pseudo-experts spouting pseudo-science in support of whatever the current social fads and trends are I will never fully understand. My mother wasn’t a college graduate, nor was she even a high school graduate. However, she taught us all critical thinking skills. She taught us to question everything and everybody, as well as the research abilities and information processing skills we needed to come to educated conclusions. Are people today just too lazy to think? Have they accepted that thinking is something better left to those who claim to be their intellectual superiors?

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Advice is one thing but the government is striving for new lows in creating mandates and laws that actually seem to create more barriers between parents and children rather than strengthen these relationships. As if the state were actually capable of genuine love, which first and foremost encapsulates everything children could need to become functional in an unforgiving world. In the 11 years since the shootings at Columbine High School, just about all 50 states have taken steps to ensure that our children are safe by creating an environment not unlike a modern maximum security prison. If developing trust with kids were not hard enough, many kids are now born into a world which must control them rather than truly educate them. These articles show how the state wants to take command and control of child rearing to the next level... start it at the home. After all, in the eyes of the state, su casa es mi casa.